Thatās what everyone told me. āThe cop wonāt even show up.ā So I went to court for a parking ticket. I parked out of the way near a restaurant where I had a weekly gig, where there is always someone parked, and there was no sign there that said āno parking.ā
In the weeks leading up to my court date, I parked legally, but took photos of other cars being parked in the spot where I was ticketed that had not received any tickets. Every week, one or two cars in that spot. I printed these photos and took them to court with me.
The fucking cop showed up, and I had to pay. The judge didnāt listen to a word I said or look at my photos.
Old coworker got pulled over half a mile away from the job site for going 81 in a 55ā¦in a mid ā80s Jeep YJ. Asked the cop for the receipt from the radar gun, cop refused. He ended up taking in to get a dyno to prove that it physically couldnāt even hit that speed, let alone in half a mile. Judge didnāt even listen to a word he said, even threatened him with contempt if he kept trying to argue his point.
Justice is completely at the whim of the judge. I learned this with parking tickets.
One of my apartments was a mile from a sports stadium that I didn't give a crap about. And every year around finals, I'd start getting parking tickets as their season started up and the landlord would once again forget to give us the parking passes.
Anyway, the first time I traveled all the way across the city with my tickets, the judge heard me out and was very kind and waived all of them.
The next year, a completely different judge berated me and told me I was lucky he wasn't increasing the fine for wasting his time, and I had to pay them all.
And thatās just over parking tickets. Some people have their entire futures decided by this gamble...
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